as in to shake
to make a series of small irregular or violent movements
the engine began to judder alarmingly just a few miles outside of Brighton
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Recent Examples of judder
Well, after years of stuttering, pausing, juddering, waiting for the goalkeeper to dive and then rolling spot kicks meekly into the net, Nick Woltemade may have just reversed the trend.
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
—Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
We’re inundated with remakes—recognizable storylines and premises that repeat the familiar rather than juddering-ly rearrange our worldview.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
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Tim Spiers, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
Hers is prose in which sentences judder and disintegrate and run over each other.
—Book Marks
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
We’re inundated with remakes—recognizable storylines and premises that repeat the familiar rather than juddering-ly rearrange our worldview.
—Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
The cars judder past the fallow fields of late November as day gradually brightens the gray, polluted sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for judder
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Hulst kept hammering lap after lap through the second mile but still could not shake Serna.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Then stir or shake the solution until the sugar is completely dissolved.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2026
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The series opens as City’s record-breaking run of 26 games unbeaten comes to a shuddering halt, with a string of defeats in late 2024 leaving Guardiola visibly shaken.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
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The American flag has never been among those Davis shudders to make.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
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Physical tics can be as subtle as eye blinking, or involve jerking the arms, or stretching the neck.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
5 June 2026
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In the summer of 2020, former Morgan Stanley trader Adam Crawley was wandering through Indonesia, Thailand and Australia, perfecting his qigong with a man called Master YanG, when a cold message on LinkedIn jerked him back to reality.—
Phoebe Liu,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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With every pluck, the strings seem to vibrate in the air in front of you, blurring like bees’ wings.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
4 June 2026
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Gateway Center Arena was vibrating on a cosmic level last night as the Atlanta Dream beat the Connecticut Sun.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
3 June 2026
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“Judder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/judder. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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